[plug] Cross Compile i386 .deb package on amd64

[Michael Holland]

I wasn't advocating anything. The chroot is a more elegant solution to this
particular problem.
But especially for someone less familiar with Unix, a VM is conceptually
simpler.

And VMs have much broader application, so you may well want to have some VMs
lying about anyway.


2009/8/7 Daniel Pittman <daniel at rimspace.net>

> Michael Holland <michael.holland at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Or you could just run a 32-bit virtual machine to do it.
> > That can be very quick to set up. (i386 on amd64)
>
> I am curious to know why you are advocating a virtual machine — by which
> I envision something like a KVM or VMWare VM — rather than just using a
> 32-bit
> chroot?
>
> Personally, I can't see anything but drawbacks to the former approach, but
> perhaps I am missing something?
>
> Regards,
>         Daniel
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